New Year’s Eve may be the time to raise glasses to the coming year, but those cocktails can negatively affect your evening if you have diabetes.

Alcohol interferes with your body’s ability to produce and keep healthy levels of blood sugar and says the American Diabetes Association (ADA). It’s especially dangerous to drink alcohol if you’re not eating.

But if you’re celebrating the New Year with a full meal and only a small amount of alcohol, then it shouldn’t cause a severe problem with low blood sugar. (Don’t forget to count those cocktail’s calories in your meal plan, though!)

In general, one alcoholic beverage substitutes for 1 fat exchange in a meal plan.

Reprinted from 101 Tips for Improving Your Blood Sugar by the University of New Mexico Diabetes Care Team. Copyright by the American Diabetes Association. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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